Connor Crowley
@croweleycf.bsky.social
Chocolate chip cookie supremacist.
Used to repair MTA transit radios, then built NYC skyscrapers, now do quantum computer things in Zuid-Holland (Best Holland).
Used to repair MTA transit radios, then built NYC skyscrapers, now do quantum computer things in Zuid-Holland (Best Holland).
First walk to CVS to pick up something and almost got run over with baby by a driver. She turned into us while staring at her phone.
She sped off as I broke her mirror. Didn't see us. Didn't stop. Instinct was run.
She sped off as I broke her mirror. Didn't see us. Didn't stop. Instinct was run.
December 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
First walk to CVS to pick up something and almost got run over with baby by a driver. She turned into us while staring at her phone.
She sped off as I broke her mirror. Didn't see us. Didn't stop. Instinct was run.
She sped off as I broke her mirror. Didn't see us. Didn't stop. Instinct was run.
*landed in Newark.
December 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
*landed in Newark.
Frankfurt is the only airport I have ever had a nervous kid with a MP5 hold me for questions.
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Frankfurt is the only airport I have ever had a nervous kid with a MP5 hold me for questions.
There is worse. (Foreboding music begins.)
December 6, 2025 at 7:41 AM
There is worse. (Foreboding music begins.)
Fun fact, in NYC a lot of buildings put the genset in an above ground mechanical floor, but the fuel tanks remain underground!
This was fun to discover during Sandy.
This was fun to discover during Sandy.
December 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Fun fact, in NYC a lot of buildings put the genset in an above ground mechanical floor, but the fuel tanks remain underground!
This was fun to discover during Sandy.
This was fun to discover during Sandy.
We have construction costs control in the Netherlands?
😂
😂
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
We have construction costs control in the Netherlands?
😂
😂
50%!!!! It is 1% for buses here!
I honestly have no idea how you can do Tram style PoP on crammed NYCT Buses.
I honestly have no idea how you can do Tram style PoP on crammed NYCT Buses.
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
50%!!!! It is 1% for buses here!
I honestly have no idea how you can do Tram style PoP on crammed NYCT Buses.
I honestly have no idea how you can do Tram style PoP on crammed NYCT Buses.
Europe is a monument to former prosperity.
December 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Europe is a monument to former prosperity.
Brings back memories (interior sheetrock was cracking even back then.)
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Brings back memories (interior sheetrock was cracking even back then.)
This is why I advocate the destruction of city center Amsterdam.
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is why I advocate the destruction of city center Amsterdam.
As weird as this question I am about to make is...
I wonder how much of this could be related to the fact that FDNY EMS has local "competition."
I wonder how much of this could be related to the fact that FDNY EMS has local "competition."
November 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As weird as this question I am about to make is...
I wonder how much of this could be related to the fact that FDNY EMS has local "competition."
I wonder how much of this could be related to the fact that FDNY EMS has local "competition."
Meh, who cares if Mastercard, the Dutch government, and all their friends know about my rice and milk choices, my clothing, ball gags, gas station fill-ups.
Simply not that important.
Simply not that important.
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Meh, who cares if Mastercard, the Dutch government, and all their friends know about my rice and milk choices, my clothing, ball gags, gas station fill-ups.
Simply not that important.
Simply not that important.
I think since June of this year you can, even credit.
Been getting JetBlue points ever since.
Been getting JetBlue points ever since.
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I think since June of this year you can, even credit.
Been getting JetBlue points ever since.
Been getting JetBlue points ever since.
Hi from the Netherlands. We are a cashless society. I don't miss cash at all, society is fine.
We even require a smartphone for easy access to government services. Society still functions.
We even require a smartphone for easy access to government services. Society still functions.
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Hi from the Netherlands. We are a cashless society. I don't miss cash at all, society is fine.
We even require a smartphone for easy access to government services. Society still functions.
We even require a smartphone for easy access to government services. Society still functions.
Smoke detectors are universally required. I don't believe strobes and building wide annunciation was ever retro mandated for residential.
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Smoke detectors are universally required. I don't believe strobes and building wide annunciation was ever retro mandated for residential.
Little rusty but IIRC 125' is the typical norm. Certainly in electrical code.
75' is relatively rare in fire code definition (unless you weight the average).
75' is relatively rare in fire code definition (unless you weight the average).
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Little rusty but IIRC 125' is the typical norm. Certainly in electrical code.
75' is relatively rare in fire code definition (unless you weight the average).
75' is relatively rare in fire code definition (unless you weight the average).